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... writers . The graver spirits imitated noble actions , and the actions of good men . The more trivial sort imitated the ... writing personal satire . His Margites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy ...
... writers . The graver spirits imitated noble actions , and the actions of good men . The more trivial sort imitated the ... writing personal satire . His Margites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy ...
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... writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets , 1 of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not ... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of ...
... writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets , 1 of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not ... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of ...
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... writing , " defining each word as one would define the terms in at treatise on chemistry . And on this account all ... writing is writing that is perfectly controlled , the writer says just what he means . He says it with complete ...
... writing , " defining each word as one would define the terms in at treatise on chemistry . And on this account all ... writing is writing that is perfectly controlled , the writer says just what he means . He says it with complete ...
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action admiration Aeschylus appear Aristotle artist audience beautiful called causes century character Comedy composition Cowley criticism culture Dante Alighieri degree delight diction distinction divine dramatic Dryden effect emotion English Epic poetry Euripides excellence excite existence expression feelings genius give Glaucon Hamlet heaven Hesiod Homer human idea Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden judge judgment kind knowledge language less literary literature lyric Lyrical Ballads manner means metaphors metre Milton mind mode moral nature never object Odysseus Oedipus Paradise Lost passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophical pity Plato play pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic Polygnotus praise principle produced propriety prose reader reason rhapsode rhyme scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit style T. S. Eliot theory things thought tion Tragedy true truth verse virtue whole words Wordsworth writing